Career education encompasses a wide range of technically-focused curricula and programs — from auto mechanics to culinary arts, welding to healthcare, robotics to architecture and myriad other highly focused areas of study.

Why is career education so important? The answer is perhaps best looked at from two perspectives: how it impacts kids while they’re in school, and how it can impact them once they’re out of school.

In Ready To Work, see how students are inspired by career and technical education, and understand how schools prepare them to be our nation’s future business leaders, educators, scientists, healthcare providers and more.